15th Jun 2012 11:10
For immediate release 15 June 2012
Wm Morrison Supermarkets plc ("Morrisons" or the "Company")
AGM announcement
Wm Morrison Supermarkets plc announces that at its Annual General Meeting held on 14 June 2012 at Hilmore House, Gain Lane, Bradford, BD3 7DL, each of the resolutions submitted to the meeting (as set out in the Notice of Meeting dated 10 May 2012) was proposed and passed by the appropriate majority on a poll.
Accordingly, the following matters were approved:
1. The Report and Accounts for the 52 weeks ended 29 January 2012 were approved and adopted;
2. The Remuneration Report was approved;
3. The final dividend of 7.53p per ordinary share was approved;
4. Sir Ian Gibson, Dalton Philips, Richard Pennycook, Philip Cox, Penny Hughes, Nigel Robertson and Johanna Waterous were each reappointed to the Board;
5. The auditors, KPMG Audit plc, were reappointed;
6. The Directors were authorised to fix the auditors' remuneration;
7. The Directors were authorised to make market purchases by the Company of its own shares;
8. The Directors were granted allotment authorities in respect of up to £82,100,000 of the Company's capital and allotment authorities for cash on a non pre-emptive basis in respect of up to £12,439,000 of the Company's capital; and
9. The arrangements for holding General Meetings were approved in the manner set out in the notice of meeting.
The poll votes on each resolution were as follows:
Resolution | For | % For | Against | % Against | Total votes | Votes withheld |
1. Approval of Directors' Report and Audited Financial Statements | 1,736,522,124 | 99.98 | 301,528 | 0.02 | 1,736,823,652 | 17,896,233 |
2. Approval of Remuneration Report | 1,637,609,666 | 94.89 | 88,168,836 | 5.11 | 1,725,778,502 | 28,941,381 |
3. Approval of final dividend | 1,737,808,633 | 100.00 | 17,848 | 0.00 | 1,737,826,481 | 16,893,404 |
4. Re-election of Sir Ian Gibson | 1,696,989,104 | 99.49 | 8,710,081 | 0.51 | 1,705,699,185 | 49,020,700 |
5.Re-election of Dalton Philips | 1,646,563,096 | 96.52 | 59,332,625 | 3.48 | 1,705,895,721 | 48,824,164 |
6. Re-election of Richard Pennycook | 1,733,807,591 | 99.80 | 3,543,528 | 0.20 | 1,737,351,119 | 17,368,766 |
7. Re-election of Philip Cox | 1,650,951,156 | 95.03 | 86,267,582 | 4.97 | 1,737,218,738 | 17,501,146 |
8. Re-election of Penny Hughes | 1,651,139,351 | 95.05 | 86,067,027 | 4.95 | 1,737,206,378 | 17,513,506 |
9. Re-election of Nigel Robertson | 1,721,125,528 | 99.07 | 16,076,222 | 0.93 | 1,737,201,750 | 17,518,135 |
10. Re-election of Johanna Waterous | 1,597,171,791 | 94.79 | 87,808,887 | 5.21 | 1,684,980,678 | 69,739,205 |
11. Re-appointment of KPMG Audit plc | 1,507,284,790 | 87.43 | 216,646,041 | 12.57 | 1,723,930,831 | 30,789,051 |
12. Authorisation of Directors to set the Auditors' fees | 1,537,834,930 | 89.03 | 189,438,607 | 10.97 | 1,727,273,537 | 27,446,346 |
13. Grant of authority to purchase own shares | 1,698,856,041 | 99.58 | 7,223,931 | 0.42 | 1,706,079,972 | 48,639,913 |
14. Grant of authority to allot shares | 1,637,501,466 | 94.24 | 100,040,032 | 5.76 | 1,737,541,498 | 17,178,386 |
15. Grant of authority to allot shares for cash on a non pre-emptive basis | 1,734,189,388 | 99.82 | 3,199,540 | 0.18 | 1,737,388,928 | 17,330,957 |
16. Approval of power for notice of general meetings (other than AGM) to be called on not less than 14 days notice | 1,528,541,236 | 87.97 | 209,023,188 | 12.03 | 1,737,564,424 | 17,155,459 |
Resolutions 1 to 12 and Resolution 14 were ordinary resolutions. Resolutions 13, 15 and 16 were special resolutions.
Votes 'For' include votes at the discretion of the Chairman. Votes withheld are not counted in the count of the total votes or the calculations of the percentages For or Against each resolution. Percentages are rounded to two decimal places. Total shares in issue at the time of the meeting were 2,455,428,871
Greg McMahon
Company Secretary and Head of Legal Services
Wm Morrison Supermarkets plc
Tel: 0845 611 6902
Registered Office:
Hilmore House
Gain Lane
Bradford
BD3 7DL
Company Number: 358949
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